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- Do you have the legal rights to do what you're doing
- sell, bundle, give away, distribute, modify, .. etc...
- in what medium and format can you do so ( downloads, cdrom, paper, .. )
- How do you resolve the incompatibilities between the various licenses for each applications
- some licenses require you to send in all of your patches
- some licenses allows you to "reverse engineer and disassemble" it
- What kind of changes can you make and still conform to the various licenses
- If desired, How do you restrict the commercial use of your works
- do you need to submit your patches back to the community
- can the community and customers reverse engineer your widgets
- How does each application's license affect your widgets
- Is the various license terms and conditions enforceable where you are
- What are you REQUIRED to send along to your customers with your value added widgets
- you're probably required to send the original source code in addition to the binaries
- you're probably required to send along any of your kernel patches you changed
- What is the differences between the 40+ open source licenses
- What is your recourse for license violators
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